Delta Has The First Twitter Screw-Up For A Brand During The 2014 World Cup

The World Cup was always going to be a tricky assignment for social-media account managers.

With patriotism running wild and a host of competitors who aren't always in the news, it was only a matter of time before a major corporation got carried away and tweeted something ignorant or insensitive.

It looks as if Delta Air Lines is the first U.S. brand to score a viral Twitter flub at this year's tournament, after it celebrated the U.S.'s thrilling 2-1 victory over Ghana last night by posting this unfortunate photo, which has since been deleted:

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The tweet shows the Statue of Liberty to represent the U.S.'s promise of freedom to all who come here and a giraffe to represent Ghana's, uh, being a country in Africa?

Unfortunately for Delta, giraffes do not live in Ghana, and plenty of users, including The New York Times' Binyamin Appelbaum and SB Nation's Spencer Hall, chimed in to let them know:

You get to Ghana and @delta has sent your luggage to some country that actually has giraffes... https://t.co/5JpJMkYf8F— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) June 17, 2014

.@delta Ghana's really more well known for their Clymene Dolphins than giraffes, but that's just me checking Wikipedia for three seconds — TEDDY GOOALSEVELT (@edsbs) June 17, 2014

And this is why people think all Americans are ignorant. Way to go @Deltapic.twitter.com/7MlBDoBt6y— nicole p. (@nicolecp_15) June 17, 2014

Delta later apologized, but its initial apology tweet (since deleted) included a typo.